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[Steve10]

Thanks @Tothemoon24

I personally had not seen this nor read it being discussed. It is very significant news that MegaChips was involved with the backend design as they indicated they were looking to produce a COTS AKIDA chip for particular customers.

Peter van der Made said the market did not understand the significance of MegaChips and this is increasingly becoming an understatement.

MegaChips original press release with Brainchip listed automotive and industrial use.

Not if but when and I don’t mind if my when is smaller than yours @Diogenese it is after all when you use it that counts and it could be sooner than we thought.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

The latest MegaChips presentation mentions "Aim to launch products leveraging BrainChips' next generation edge based AI solutions".

Whereas Quadric is still at the commercialization stage.

Image processing (blur) mentioned.

 

[Tothemoon24]

Well this has to be for one of Megachips customers then.
In the announcement it said for specific customers.

Looks that way Chappy ,

The search begins for who & what , Megachips are like me & money very tight …. Unless spending on Brn shares

 

[Fact Finder]

US adopts "zero trust" with commercial foundries for supply of advanced chips.

I think this was already mentioned in previous post but
"
GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor foundry that has trusted foundry status for the U.S. federal government and other countries1. It has contracts with DOD to provide secure chips for military systems. It has three trusted foundry sites in East Fishkill, NY; Burlington, VT; and Malta,

Last year the President issued a decree banning the supply of advanced technology to China.

The document was discussed here and it is clear that the definition of artificial intelligence would cover AKIDA technology. So as that ban continues and has been strengthened by the USA having the EU ban the shipping of the technology needed to produce advanced chips to China it is in my opinion impossible for AKIDA to be used by Chinese companies for any purpose.

Being Science Fiction sealed AKIDA’s fate.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Tothemoon24]

Thanks @Tothemoon24

I personally had not seen this nor read it being discussed. It is very significant news that MegaChips was involved with the backend design as they indicated they were looking to produce a COTS AKIDA chip for particular customers.

Peter van der Made said the market did not understand the significance of MegaChips and this is increasingly becoming an understatement.

MegaChips original press release with Brainchip listed automotive and industrial use.

Not if but when and I don’t mind if my when is smaller than yours @Diogenese it is after all when you use it that counts and it could be sooner than we thought.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Cheers FF ,

The clocks ticking fast it would seem .

 

[Deleted member 118]

Probably posted begorr but couldnt find the video

 

[Labsy]

Chat GTP powered BING in play

 

[MDhere]

'Aim to launch' means more to me - all of the commercialization steps are complete and we're ready to go to market with an actual product

Ok Foxdog you're 1st off the block CORRECT!

So i submit exhibit $$$$$$ to all my fellow brnrs - ENJOY !

straight from Megachips Corporation Briefing FY2022 3Q (ending MARCH 2023) issued Feb 2023. Page 15!!!!!

 

[Labsy]

Last year the President issued a decree banning the supply of advanced technology to China.

The document was discussed here and it is clear that the definition of artificial intelligence would cover AKIDA technology. So as that ban continues and has been strengthened by the USA having the EU ban the shipping of the technology needed to produce advanced chips to China it is in my opinion impossible for AKIDA to be used by Chinese companies for any purpose.

Being Science Fiction sealed AKIDA’s fate.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

No chance...

 

[manny100]

The latest MegaChips presentation mentions "Aim to launch products leveraging BrainChips' next generation edge based AI solutions".

Whereas Quadric is still at the commercialization stage.


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Image processing (blur) mentioned.

Very, very encouraging, thanks

 

[Esq.111]

Morning Chippers,

Some may find the below article interesting, taken from Weekend Financial Review.

Cannot recall who , sorry, but a little while ago one of our sleuths put up a visual display of Brainchip internet traffic globaly. Alot of chatter was originating out of Vietnam if memory serves......

The second article , well thought I'd add my guess on where we should be pressently......

Not financial advice... may be more... DYOR.

.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[Fact Finder]

I have been looking at Edge Impulse blogs and noting there are 60,000+ developers running 130,000+ projects the following seems even to this old technophobe significant:

“Deployment Options​

Any model that has been developed in the impulse design on Edge Impulse Studio can be deployed to BrainChip Akida target devices. In order to download these models for custom deployments, developers must choose the BrainChip MetaTFTMmodel block (refer Figure 5a) under the deployment stage to obtain a .zip file with the converted model in it. Alternatively, there is also a BrainChip Akida PCIe deployment block (refer Figure 5b) available which will generate a pre-built binary that can be used with Edge Impulse Linux CLI to run on any compatible Linux installation where this board is installed.

[IMG alt="Graphical user interface, application, Teams Description automatically generated"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s...PAD9OP50EUJK1iUijH5qgjrsAroN_zwpRuo_krg[/IMG]	[IMG alt="Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U...XiJMFmxvc2E_2jna6hYv-MQdxORqpE42PxXapCw[/IMG]
Figure 6a: Download BrainChip Akida-compatible model for custom deployment on BrainChip Akida devices	Figure 6b: Download pre-built binary for AKD1000 mini PCIe development board

The pre-built binary that is provided from the deployment block also has in-built tools that provide performance metrics for the AKD1000 mini PCI reference board (refer Figure 7). This is a very unique integration as developers can not only deploy their favorite projects to BrainChip Akida devices but can also capture information such as efficiency that help build a prototype system with Akida technology”

BrainChip Akida™ Platform Features in Edge Impulse

This blog highlights the new features with BrainChip technology that are now available in Edge Impulse Studio.

www.edgeimpulse.com

Unless I am completely missing the point what Edge Impulse is saying is that any of the existing 130,000 projects can be simply deployed to AKIDA and you will be provided with performance figures so you can see the advantages such as they may be of running on AKIDA.

Later in this blog they talk about things an advanced user could additionally do so again this suggests that checking to see if AKIDA will improve performance is as simple as falling off a technology log.

This suggests at least to me that 1% is a very conservative estimate of what is happening in the Edge Impulse developer world where AKIDA is concerned.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[miaeffect]

Or family neurons, iq, litres of bin juice criculating in their brain....

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[Bravo]

The latest MegaChips presentation mentions "Aim to launch products leveraging BrainChips' next generation edge based AI solutions".

Whereas Quadric is still at the commercialization stage.


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Image processing (blur) mentioned.

Agreed @Steve10, that's what caught my eye when first reading it. The very first "Target Application" listed is:

• Image processing (blur, background elimination, etc).

So, what products would require this application?

 

[Learning]

Apologies if this is common knowledge?





Megachips played a part in design of Akida1500




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That is a very interesting statement from Douglas.

Thanks, Tothemoon24.

If we look through Douglas LinkedIn; all his posts in the last 6 month is promoting BrainChip and recently MorseMicro ( Due to the investment of Megachips to MorseMicro)

What I find intresting is MorseMicro' WiFi Halo is base on the RISC-V architecture. We know BrainChip had partner with SiFive, so in essence, AKIDA should be compatible with RISC-V architecture.

BrainChip + Megachips + MorseMicro ( perhaps a mé·na·ges à trois to dominate WIFI without the internet???)

Edit: WiFi security cameras without internet.

Just my Sunday thought
Learning 🏖

 

[Diogenese]

Regardless though, the AKIDA1500 IP would also be process agnostic?

Or I guess we haven't actually proven that, with AKIDA1000 yet?

I'm guessing it has a few more bells and whistles over AKIDA1000 and is not just the IP minus ARM processor and on another chip architecture?

Well you can't use the Akida 1500 FD-SOI IP on vanilla CMOS. The circuit design could be implemented in CMOS, but it would need a different tape-out design adapted for CMOS.

 

[Bravo]

I thought this extract from an interview with Jack Kang (SVP SiFive) was very interesting and confirms why patience is required while everything moves through the development cycle; with automotive having a much longer cycle than mobile or datacentres. Here Jack discusses SiFive's aim to move to 5nm chips and how long it's expected to take.

Speaking of 5nm, in one of @FactFinder's recent posts he said "We also know that AKD1000 was always claimed by Brainchip to be scalable down to at least 5nm. It is a fact that one of the reasons to scale down is that in so doing power usage reduces along with latency. In other words it becomes more efficient as you scale down."

Q&A with SiFive SVP Jack Kang: 5 nm chips with SiFive cores likely to be used in cars by 2025-2026

SiFive successfully rolled out a portfolio of automotive CPUs based on the RISC-V standard, and is about to create a new ecosystem of chips, tier-1 auto component providers and OEM partners. DIGITIMES had an exclusive interview with SiFive SVP Jack Kang, who shared what triggered the RISC-V...

www.digitimes.com

 

[Diogenese]

I thought they were more of a design house, like ARM and the actual chips are produced at foundries?

Or that's correct, but they don't have licence to work with the other design process?

You are right - see, eg, @Tothemoon24 's post below.

 

[Fact Finder]

I have been looking at Edge Impulse blogs and noting there are 60,000+ developers running 130,000+ projects the following seems even to this old technophobe significant:

“Deployment Options​

Any model that has been developed in the impulse design on Edge Impulse Studio can be deployed to BrainChip Akida target devices. In order to download these models for custom deployments, developers must choose the BrainChip MetaTFTMmodel block (refer Figure 5a) under the deployment stage to obtain a .zip file with the converted model in it. Alternatively, there is also a BrainChip Akida PCIe deployment block (refer Figure 5b) available which will generate a pre-built binary that can be used with Edge Impulse Linux CLI to run on any compatible Linux installation where this board is installed.

[IMG alt="Graphical user interface, application, Teams Description automatically generated"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s...PAD9OP50EUJK1iUijH5qgjrsAroN_zwpRuo_krg[/IMG]	[IMG alt="Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U...XiJMFmxvc2E_2jna6hYv-MQdxORqpE42PxXapCw[/IMG]
Figure 6a: Download BrainChip Akida-compatible model for custom deployment on BrainChip Akida devices	Figure 6b: Download pre-built binary for AKD1000 mini PCIe development board

The pre-built binary that is provided from the deployment block also has in-built tools that provide performance metrics for the AKD1000 mini PCI reference board (refer Figure 7). This is a very unique integration as developers can not only deploy their favorite projects to BrainChip Akida devices but can also capture information such as efficiency that help build a prototype system with Akida technology”

BrainChip Akida™ Platform Features in Edge Impulse

This blog highlights the new features with BrainChip technology that are now available in Edge Impulse Studio.

www.edgeimpulse.com

Unless I am completely missing the point what Edge Impulse is saying is that any of the existing 130,000 projects can be simply deployed to AKIDA and you will be provided with performance figures so you can see the advantages such as they may be of running on AKIDA.

Later in this blog they talk about things an advanced user could additionally do so again this suggests that checking to see if AKIDA will improve performance is as simple as falling off a technology log.

This suggests at least to me that 1% is a very conservative estimate of what is happening in the Edge Impulse developer world where AKIDA is concerned.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Just one additional thought.

Edge Impulse by providing benchmarking of AKIDA against a GPU running at 900 megahertz has encouraged an extremely large portion of its developer community to consider the advantages that AKIDA might offer EVEN well back from the far Edge.

In so doing this could lead the developers who were reliant on a GPU running at 900 megahertz to rethink how they could actually sit at the Edge or as Dell prefers the End Point unconnected and running at extremely low power without the need for cooling.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Fact Finder]

Agreed @Steve10, that's what caught my eye when first reading it. The very first "Target Application" listed is:

• Image processing (blur, background elimination, etc).

So, what products would require this application?

Can’t help myself.

Well anyone who has ever said “It’s all a blur to me.” would want one.

Sorry.

 

[toasty]

Of recent times I have begun to feel some impatience with the lack of price sensitive information flow. Holding for 7 years was proving to be a little wearying. However, the recent discoveries by the 1K eyes of the involvement of Megachips in the design of AKIDA1500 has boosted my enthusiasm for BRN again. Its caused me to do a little dot joining of my own.

There now seems to be a strong link between Brainchip - Megachips - RISC V, as per the post by @Learning. We also know that the GF process is a preferred platform for US agencies, including NASA and DoD and that GF is a trusted supplier to those agencies. We also know that RISC V is being used, or intending to be used, by NASA for space craft. We also know that NASA innovations are often picked up for military applications and, eventually, find their way into commercial products.

Here's my hypothesis. Megachips is working with BRN to implement smart sensors using AKIDA 1500 which, after initial processing (eg inference, SNN to CNN conversion), send the results to a "main" RISC V processor which acts on the smart sensor inputs. Potential applications for such a configuration include the NASA/Dod type alluded to above but could also include a VERY wide range of use cases involving RISC V. Lets think automotive, robotics, wearables, healthcare and comms just to start with. Could this (AKIDA 1500) be Megachips, Morse Micro and Brianchip proving up multiple use cases for AKIDA/RISC V. Is this why PVdM said that the market has not yet come to understand the significance of the Brainchip/Megachips relationship?

Once agin, these are the ramblings of an unknown internet poster so please DYOR and make up your own mind?